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Record Nr.

UNINA9910457384603321

Autore

George Henry <1839-1897.>

Titolo

Our land and land policy [[electronic resource] ] : speeches, lectures, and miscellaneous writings / / by Henry George ; edited by Kenneth C. Wenzer

Pubbl/distr/stampa

East Lansing, : Michigan State University Press, c1999

ISBN

1-62895-203-2

0-87013-918-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (273 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

WenzerKenneth C. <1950->

Disciplina

333.1/0973

Soggetti

Public lands - United States

Public lands - California

Land tenure - United States

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Originally published: San Francisco : White & Bauer, 1871.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Prefatory Note; Preface to the 1999 Edition; Our Land and Land Policy ; The Lands of the United States  ; The Lands of California ; Land and Labour; The Tendency of Our Present Land Policy; What Our Land Policy Should Be; The Study of Political Economy; The American Republic; The Crime of Poverty; Land and Taxation; "Thou Shalt Not Steal" ; To Workingmen; "Thy Kingdom Come"; Justice the Object-Taxation the Means; Causes of the Business Depression; Peace by Standing Army; Editor's Notes

Sommario/riassunto

Even before the publication of Progress and Poverty in 1879, San Francisco political economist and publisher Henry George (1839-1897) had written extensively about what he considered to be the causes for worldwide economic inequity-land monopolization and speculation by wealthy entrepreneurs and corrupt politicians. But his attacks on these evils were coupled with a plan for a possible brighter future, for a world in which disparities between people of different classes could be adjusted. By the time he died in 1897, his assessments of liberal 19th-century economic theory were critically accl



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Record Nr.

UNINA9910360253203321

Autore

Antomarini B (Brunella)

Titolo

Hephaestus Reloaded : Composed for Ten Hands / Efesto Reloaded: Composizioni per 10 mani / / Brunello Antomarini, Adam Berg, Vladimir D'Amora, Alessandro De Francesco, Miltos Manetas

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Brooklyn, NY, : punctum books, 2019

[Goleta], : punctum books, 2019

©2019

ISBN

1-950192-36-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (114 pages) : illustrations; PDF, digital file(s)

Disciplina

194

Soggetti

Transcendence (Philosophy)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Sommario/riassunto

Not simply as an object but rather as an immersive agency in which nature, knowledge, technique merge. The transcendence of the actual and the virtual into a "third" element is construed and analyzed in this book through conceptual schemes that rely on a post-binary or non-binary understanding of coincidences, triangulations, hybrids, or post-human combinatorics. What is ultimately explored is how transcendence is ejected from strictly theological, philosophical, or scientific groundings and emerges as a germinating point of becoming (something else).

Each of the contributions in this book addresses - through its own peculiar perspective, method and experimental style - a new way to approach the role of transcendence in socio-cultural life.In the Occidental history of ideas, the notion of transcendence has received at least three canonical articulations that are challenged by this book: religious (Judeo-Christian traditions), philosophical (Platonic-intellectual universality of ideas), and scientific (the objective and technological turn of knowledge). Nonetheless, it is with the rise of cybernetics, with its digital and virtual modalities of systems, networks, and knowledge, that our human environment emerges as a source of



knowledge in itself --.

Hephaestus Reloaded / Efesto Reloaded, presented in a bilingual (English/Italian) publication, and whose five authors are from Greece, Italy, and the US, invokes as its first inspiration the myth of Hephaestus who embodied a twofold entity: both disabled and technically capacious. The myth of Hephaestus has been passed across the centuries as an ancient metaphor signifying the idea of becoming-world, in which any distinction between the natural and the artificial, or the organic and the technical, is blurred. Human beings, by virtue of their physical vulnerabilities and limits, have enhanced their technological powers to the point of transcending their own given nature. At present, a variety of critical discourses in disciplines such as philosophy, history, aesthetics, and cognitive sciences pay attention to our becoming-hybrid (organic and mechanical beings) - unleashing a space for research that probes the concept of transcendence.-.